Rescue crews have called off the search for Luke Stimson, the British sailor
who fell from a yacht in the Pacific on Saturday.

The US Coast Guard and Navy in Hawaii said they had suspended the
“unprecedented” search, which was assisted by Navy warship USS
Peleliu, after covering 2,300 square miles in 50 hours.

Mr Stimson, 38, an executive for a prize-winning rose company, had been
sailing from Osaka in Japan to Southampton — a 16,000-mile trip - with Laura
Vernon, his fiancée, when he went overboard hundreds of miles from land at
around 11.30pm on Saturday night.